88% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $13,350 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
868
inspections on record
14,488
inspection hours
4.7
citations per 100 inspection hours
ⓘThis rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
681 citations across 14,488 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Penalty disposition
ⓘDifferences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$109K
proposed penalties
$96K
current assessed
$96K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
661 assessments are final orders; 35 contested dockets.
Of $40K in penalties contested before the Commission, $28K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2009-03-04.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
ⓘShares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2007
ⓘThis rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
2.83
total case rate
0.61
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.30 and the all-US-mining average was 3.77 cases per 100 workers.
Year
total case rate
days-away
fatal
2007
2.83
0.61
0.000
2006
5.95
0.66
0.000
2005
7.07
1.55
0.000
2004
5.24
0.70
0.000
2003
5.87
1.25
0.000
2002
3.72
0.35
0.000
2001
4.00
1.04
0.000
2000
4.93
1.30
0.000
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Health sampling
ⓘA sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.
Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
ⓘMany samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.
Last sampled: 2007-11-07, 18 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
195
samples
64
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg110
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz30
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz27
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz21
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
When citations were contested
ⓘContesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
47citations taken to the federal commission · 7% of citations on record
Settled
38 · 81%
Stood as issued
9 · 19%
76%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘCounts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 29 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
32%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$39K proposed, $26K after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2008-02-28. Vacated and withdrawn citations are removed from the file this view attributes through, so that outcome is slightly undercounted here.
Contested penalties
ⓘA reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this controller contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
EMPLOYEE WAS LEVELING PAD FOR DRAGLINE TO EXCAVATE LIMEROCK USING A CAT TRACK DOZER NEXT TO A WATER FILLED PIT THE MACHINE BACKED OVE THE EDGE AND FELL INTO 25 FT OF WATER. EMPLOYEE DIED.
September 29, 1997FL · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techFatality · MACHINERY
TECHNICIAN FROM AN OUTSIDE TIRE SERVICE COMPANY WAS IN THE PROCESS OF INSTALLING A NEW TIRE ON A FRONT END LOADER. FOR UNKNOWN REASONS, THE TIRE FELL ON THE TECHNICIAN, SUBJECTING HIM TO FATAL INJURIES.
July 10, 1989MD · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanFatality · POWERED HAULAGE
I NAME WAS TRAPPED IN CHEVROLET C-10 PICK-UP TRUCK HE WAS DRIVING AS THE RESULT OF BEING BACKED OVER BY A CATERPILLAR 775 HAUL TRUCK HE PULLED DIRECTLY BEHIND THE TRUCK BEYOND SIGHT OF WHERE H E COULD BE SEEN FROM THE CAB OF THE CAT TRUCK WHEN THE CAT OF THE CAT TRUCK PROCEEDED BACKWARDS IT CRUSHED THE FRONT OF THE TRUCK TRAPPING THE DRIVER
December 19, 1985FL · Metal/Non-Metalbackhoe operator, trackhoe operatorFatality · MACHINERY
FATALITY OCCURR9D WHILE EMPL TRYING TO STRING OUT WELDING LEAD ALONG WALKWAY OVER PAIR OF TROMMELS.A LIFTING EYE CAUGHT LEAD AND PULLED EMPL AROUND TROMMEL AND INTO CATCH BASIN BELOW.WATER THE N WASHED EMPL I3TO DRAINAGE DITCH.
For insurers, brokers, and safety consultants
Where Florida Rock Industries Inc stands on silica, penalties, and injury rate
MSHA's standard limits respirable silica to 50 micrograms per cubic metre, but MSHA publishes
dust and quartz as separate files and never the silica figure itself. We derive it per sample,
score it against the limit, and set the operator's injury rate against a benchmark built from
the full MSHA operator record. With the 26-year penalty trail, contest posture, and fatality
history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.